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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

THE Washington swells are described
rs extravagsnt this season in the mat
ter of overcoats. A correspondent saw
= half dozen. whose overcoats must
have cost an aggregate Of $500. chat
ting together in hotel one evening re-
Gently. But this is nothing, compare
lively. There are overcoats which
have cost 1000, and one of the diplo-
mats has an ovorcoat of sealskin which
would make three good.sized ladies'
sacques.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

THE reduction of the marriage
license fee in Maryland to 81 brought
about remarkable marriage at Snow
Hill the other day. The bride and
groom elect had been living together
for twenty-seven years, and were the
parents Of seventeen children. The
groom claimed to have been honest in
mis- intention to get married when he
was able. but never felt so until few
days ago. when told that the marriage
license fee had be en- reduced.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

CLosER estimates of the losses to
workingmen by the recent strike in
New York and New Jersey give the
number Of strikers at 80. ESQ whose
earnings from Jan. to Feb. 10 would
have been s1.405.0Oo. In addition,
there are $1,000 persons IN the same
section who were reduced to idlenes'
through lack Of coal or the strike Of
stbers. knd whose wages would have
>mocntcd 70 $4,000. This brings
ne loss n earnings 70 n. 755. 900.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

In New York and Brooklyn there ere
several Italian labor agencies that
make great deal of money out of the
ignorant sons of Italy. They contract
for labor at 81 per day, pay the ignor-
ant laborer 81 and few cents, and
pocket fee OF % per day each, per
gang of twcnty-thrcc men. The agents
all stand in together and can starve a
recolcitrant laborcr into submission in
few days
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

A LooUAcIoUs little fellow. says me
Boston Budget, who resides in the Hub.
rather unceremoniously removed the
veil from the secrecy that surrounds the
missive of st. Valentine. The young
gentleman who is credited with a re-
gard for that little fellows sister, and
whose regard is not unreciprocated,
called the other evening, and, meeting
!he little boy, very naturally inquired:
johnny, did you get a valentine?"
mo, I didn't; and you wouldn't either
# Sarah hadn't stoled the money out O.
my bank to buy one for you'll"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

CONGRESSMAN SPRIGGs, of New YorK,
is quoted as saying hat before July /
President Cleveland will leave letter
in the hands OF the national democratic
committee declining To be candidate
for reelection.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

QUEEN VICTORIA has signlied he.
approval of the design to erect a suit
able monument over tho grave of the
marquis of Montrose in st. Giles cathe-
dral. Edinburgh, for which 50, has
already been collected.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

NINE. KUKI, the Japanese minister
wife, has just acquired a command OF
English. and is very proud of the ac-
oomplishment.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

HENRY WARD BEEcHER says that
one of the things that impressed him
most during his visit to England last
summer was the extent to which Ameri-
san cheese Is sold there. He says that,
though England has been famous as a
cheese producing country for centuries
past the people there prefer the Ameri-
,an article now. They say that it is
more wholesome and more reliable than
such of their own products as can be
sold at anything like IN equal price;
and il American manufacturers will
,nly continue to send honest goods over
here they can in the course of time
multiply our present export trade in
cheese many times over
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

A CORRESPONDENT of Boston pa
Der writes: can purchase farms in
Vermont for $1,000 which twenty
Tears ago would readily have COM
handed from 81. 900 to $3.50. Farms
an be purchased in New England for
BIO per acre and less in fair condition.
with all the usual appurtenances Of
pleasant homestead. 1t would be alb
yurd to imagine that western COMPETE
Jon is Of small account No croaking
,r complaining can remedy the diff
,ulty. II we're better TO face the music
nanfully. and make the best possible
ise of our resources. II any man
doubts New England suffers from COM
petition with the west aud other sec
ions Of our country. let him consider
he present price Of wool. beef pork.
rheat corn. and other grains
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

RoBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. the hc-
Zionist. has been very i'll, but is now at
his home in Bournemouth somewhat
convalcscent His constitution is very
fral. and his literary work is often
done when he is hardly strong enough
10 hold pen.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

TwENTY-oNB priests live in the
Buddhist cloister of Hanie, Thibet,
where the altitude is sixteen thousand
feet above the level OF the sea- 1t is
the highest inhabitable spot know.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

WOMEN are very popular as CLERKS
and copyists in Wall street. because
they can be trained better than can the
ambitious male employees not TO give
away points
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

IT is stated that during the late wat
copper was worth from 60 to 70 cents
per pound while now it can be obtained
ut IL cents per pound.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

IT is estimated that the ice carnival
ut Montreal brought S2,0O0,oOO in
American money to that city. The
whole affair cost only $4,000
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

CHARLOTTE SMITH, the noted reform
or and president of the Woman's league
Is said to have written letter to Presi-
dent Cleveland asking for the secreta-
ryship of the treasury.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

THE.edltor of The Inter Idaho pub
lished at HALEY, remarks of the editor
of The Boise Statesman that he pro
poses to assal him until 1.-The thin
mantle of quasi-respectability is torn
from his shoulders, revealing him as
he really is-reeking with corruption,
morally leprous, sin-stained, debased,
despised. abhorrent, abdominated, de-
tested. scoiled at, reviled, liar, and 0
sneak"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

CRoCKER. the California nabob. has
three sons ard daughter to inherit
his "a, 900, 900.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

The average age of European girls
when they marry. according to Ger
man statsticiau. is 26 years, while that
Of the men is 90 years.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

IT is reported that Sam Jones receiv
Cd $4,000 for one months work in
Boston.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

THE grape crop of 1886 in California
is reported 10 have amounted to 1856,
900, 900 pounds, but in all probability,
as with most other California estimates,
liberal discount may be allowed The
distribution of the crop is said to have
been as follows: Forty million pounds
sent eastward, twenty million pounds
used for making brandy, and the rest
converted into wine. The quantity of
wine is varlously estimated at from six
teen million to twenty-five million gal
Ions. The production of raisins was
also unusually large.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

A JOKER told an old colored man OF
Raleigh that the North Carolina legis.
lature was about to pass law making
il right for man to sell his wife. The
old man doubted, and asked another
citizen, who, to see the effect, intimat-
ed that the report was true. The old
darby looked down moment, scratch.
ed his head, and then said: "Well.
sir. eff dat gifts to be or law, my wife
she 90 on de block, sho."
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

AT an agricultural meeting in New
York, Mr.. L. s. Goil. of the Geneva ex-
pertinent station. gave an interesting
account of his series of experiments in
potato culture. Among other results
reached from the use of large and
small tubers for seed was that small
tubers from large and productive hills
gave a heavier return than large tubers
from small or unproductive hills; and
that small uncut tubers yielded more
than cut pieces of equal weight from
large potatoes.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

A HOUSE of straw is now being made
at Philadelphia for the American ex-
hibition which opens in London May 2.
1t is a suburban villa, very high, and
covering u space of 42x50 feet 1t is
built entirely of materials manufacture
ed from straw. foundations, timber,
flooring, sheeting, roofing, everything,
in fact, including the chmneys, the
material being fireproof as well as
waterproof. The inside finish will be
in imitation of various kinds of wood.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-19

HOUSE servants have no easy time in
Germany il a recent letter from Berlin
can be relied upon. Work begins often
long before daybrcak, and continues
sometimes till past midnight. The
floors must be scrubbed every other
day and the windows every week; for
this broom is not known, but brush
is the article used. For all the arduous
duties which she performs the servant
gets only 60 cents week.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
J. W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
NUMBER fl.

each other better for weeks separa- tion."
 Poor Grace! It was very hard, and it seemed as if she could not bear it The hours went so slowly she was glad when mamma told her it was bedtime, and she went to sleep thinking that one day had gone. What long. long week that was!
 Leslie came over every morning to the gate, and threw her kisses, which she returned with interest. It seemed to Grace that she could never quarrel with Leslie again, and that she should be perfectly willing that he should have his own way in every thing, if that dreadful week would only come to an end. And it really did at last.
 Grace awoke early that morning and could hardly eat her breakfast she was so excited. She had just left the table when Leslie rushed in. Papa aud mamma laughed over the joyful meet ing.
 Mamma said I could stay all the morning." said Leslie, ''and you must come over and stay this afternoon with me-can't she, Aunt Jessie? Get all your dolls, Grace, and we'll play they are poor children, and take them out into the country and give lem a jolly treat. I've saved up all my money to get some peanuts and candy mamma said I could. I've got eight cents"
 Hadn't you a little rather play 'nagerie with your Noah's ark, LeslieP" asked Grace, ''cause should like it ever SO much"
 May be we'll play that afterwards " said Leslie; "but hurry and get your dolls and hat, cause we've got ever so much playing to make up, you know We'll have just splendid time."
 "rm so glad we can play together again." said Grace, as she brought her extensive family. ''It seemed most as if you were dead and twas dreadful; but we won't ever lose any more weeks will we Leslie?"
 And they never did, for the lesson did not need to be repeated.-JutsG D' Peek, in Youth'S CompGDios.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
PLAY-TlME.
The Happiness of Childhood One of Gods
 Good Gifts-He Delights in Innocent Di-

The Happiness of Childhood One of Gods
 Good Gifts-He Delights in Innocent Di-
 version.
 Play is neither idleness nor folly. It is one of the many good things which have come into your life from Heaven. It is a gift from God. It is one of His wonderful works. When He made the beautiful earth and the sky, and the body and soul of man, He made the happy play of childhood. It is part of your life as truly as prayer is, as truly as the soul itself is. And it is part of the life of children all the world over. If it were possible to journey with the sunlight and see all that it sees, and go round and round the globe with it, we should everywhere see chil- dren at play.
 Now, the first thing want you to see is that this playing of you boys and girls in the streets, or anywhere else, a pleasure to God. He is God so kind and loving that He delights Tn every thing innocent that is delight to you Just as He delights in the songs of birds and in the color and fragrance of flowers, He delights in the play of child- hood. It was because He was thinking of it as pleasure that he sent Zecha-, riah to tell the builders of Jerusalem the good news that children should soon be playing in the streets.
 God has made play part of your life because He wants you to be strong. He has work waiting in the years to come for every boy and girl on tho earth; and although it is not all tho same kind of work, all of it is work which will want strength for the doing. Therefore, He will not have you always at tasks. He has divided the time for tasks with time for play. He will have you out in the open air. By your games He will have your body in endless motion. You shall run and not be weary. You shall leap and dance, and race and climb, so that every part of you may be made strong for the work that lies before you in life.
 For another thing. God wants you to have happy gateway into life Nobody can tell beforehand whether your after life will be happy; but God in His love has secured that the time ot play shall be happy. In games you are joined together, just as we who ara old in our tolls. The playground is 0 little world. You can not have any pleasure in any of its games unless you try to have the others playing with you as happy as yourself. To be unkind. unjust, unfair, or ungenerous in a game, is to spoil it or bring it to an end. Surely this is new, rich ad- dition to our knowledge of God, when we discover that the same kind Father, who gave His Son to die for us that He might deliver us from sin and death, made the joy and play of boys and girls in the streets and in the house. May you carry something of the joy of it all through life with you, and may you re- member that God has been so good to you that He has set your life between two worlds of joy-the world of your happy childhood and the world that awaits you in Heaven.-ReU. Ale1andeT Macleod, D. D.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
ICE-CREAM POISONING.
Deaths Caused by the Shameful Adulter
 finn nf Ennd Rrndncts.

Deaths Caused by the Shameful Adultera-
 ton of Food Products.
 Instances of ice-cream poisoning con tinue to multiply. The cause, how ever, remains as far beyond discovery as ever. Cheese poisoning dried-beef poisonings and canned-meat poisonings are also of frequent occurrence. Such catasthrophes were in former times un- known. When pure milk, pure eggs and pure favors were used for ice cream, when cheese was made of milk and curded with genuine animal rem net, end meat was cured with simple salt, they did not become poison by chemical action, nor even through putridity.
 With modern discoveries in science, all kinds of chemical mixtures are made to take the place of pure, unso- phisticated products. Milk is doc tored; cream is doctored; artificial sub stitutes for eggs and butter are used; favors are made from mysterious in- gredients, in compounding ice-cream. In the supplies of cheese-factories sub stitutes are used that produce more curd from the milk, and that color it so as to resemble the natural cream and yellow hues derived from the grass in pastures. In preserving meat chemical agencies are supplied to rein force the offices filled by salt in the pro- cess.
 These new ingredients used in food products doubtless, in combination or in the process of putrefaction, would produce poisons unknown to chemical science, and such as have no lurking place in the products ofnature honest ly prepared for human food. The ice cream poisons, the cheese poisons and the canned meat poisons, loosely known by new names, are produced by the decomposition of the sOphisti- cated and strange substances of which limitations of old articles of pure food are composed. If those producing ice cream, cheese, cured meats and simi- lar articles should return to the use of pure natural materials the new poisons would disappear, Chicago Journal,
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
BYE, BABY, BYE.

The sun has gone from the shining skies;
 Bye, baby, bye. The dandelions have closed their eyes;
 Bye, baby, bye. And the stars are lighting their lamps to see If the babies and squirrels and birds, all three, Are sound asleep as they ought to be.
 Bye, baby, bye. The squirrel is dressed in coat of gray;
 Bye, baby, bye. He wears it by night as well as by day;
 Bye, baby, bye. The robin sleeps in his feathers and down, With the warm red breast and the wings of brown; But the baby wears little white gown
 Bye, baby, bye. The squirrels nest is hole in the tree;
 Bye, baby, bye. And there he sleeps as snug as he can be;
 Bye baby, bye. The robins nest is high overhead, Where the leafy boughs of the maple spread; But the babes nest is a little white bed.
 Bye, baby, bye.
 -Eudora s. BuD1stead, in St. Nicholas.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
MODERN JERUSALEM.
The Poverty and Unsatisfactory Condition
 of Its Inhabitants.

The Poverty and Unsatisfactory Condition
 of Its Inhabitants.
 Jerusalem has no wealth. Fifty or one hundred years ago, it could boast of some wealthy families. Their prop erty has, however, been scattered and reduced, until their descendants of the present generation are either poor, or possessed of barely enough to support them. The city is poor, the people are impoverished, and half of the inhabi. tants scarcely know from day to day where they are going to get their daily bread.
 But poor as people and city are. rents are exorbitantly high. Since the houses are built of stone, there is no danger of loss by fire. Hence fam flies having little money on which they are dependent for support will build house with it, because the in- vestment is the best one they can make. There is no risks, and the high rents insure a good rate of interest.
 Only a well-to-do family can occupy an entire house. In hundreds of cases family numbering four or eight persons will occupy but single room. In a house of six or eight rooms, there will be as many families. They all cook and wash in a large open cour', to which each family has access. This fact will give an idea of how crowded some of the houses are. The people are obliged to live in this way, because they have not money enough to hire more room.
 It is very expensive building houses in Jerusalem. The first step is to dig a cistern. This costs so much that the owner will dig only small cistern, when he should build one five times the size. All the families in the house use water from this cistern. During the rainy season there is sufficient water; but by May or the first of June at the least. the cistern is dry. No rain falls until November or Decem- Der; consequently, these people must buy water for four or five months. Water is brought in skins, holding on an average three pailfulls each; and for skin of water one must pay from five to ten cents. For poor people this is very great hardship; consequently, the least possible amount of water is used, and it need hardly be said that indescribable filth abounds.
 Houses are invariably built of stone and are much more expensive than one would suppose. Stones have to be quarried, transported on the backs of camels, cut into proper shape, and finally built into walls. If the house is two stories high, and the rooms are large, the walls have to be two, and sometimes three feet thick, ill order to support the great weight resting upon them. A vast amount of stone and mortar is consumed in making the arches that support the upper floors or the roof and likewise in the roof itself. The amount of water used in prepar- ing the mortar sometimes costs alone several hundred dollars, if the house is a large one.-Dr SeIGb Merrill, late U s. CounSul.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
SWORDS OF INDIA.
Deadly Weapons Carried by the Sepoys,
 Persians and Afghans.

Persians and Afghans.
 Among some military trophies 1 once saw very rude, rusty teghar- locally worth a shilling-which had cleanly decapitated a raw recruit, severing coat collar, brass buckle and caste necklet of hard enamel beads. The nimble village rebel had sprung on the Sepoy from ambush while trim ming his fintlock after a misfire. This and all the low-priced teghars and tulwars are of very soft metal, capable of being bent and strengthened across the blade, while the arch or cutting portion, with razor-edge, offers immense resistance in the hands of an expert, who, behind his shield, can watch and measure his opportun- ity. Only the straight thrust of Brit ish bayonets or dragoon blades can reach them.
 The metal and finish of cutting arms improve when we enter North India Hard steel of fine temper and high workmanship used to be common un- til two Sikh wars and the great mu- tiny abolished the demand for such deadly wares. The skilful Moham- medan craftsman had to emigrate for a livelihood, or 10 often dwindled into a blacksmith of harmless occupation. remember in the good old times of the East India Company itinerant sword peddlers, Persians and Afghans of great stature and big turbans.
 "Do you want any swords?"
 "Yes; but where are they?"
 "Here;" and the vendors hands were lifted to his head-cloth, where they groped awhile. Out sprang three or four shining steel snakes, elastic blades, unhandled la mode, f20 to $50 each in value, sometimes more. Then the dealer put them through various severe tests to satisfy his customer, packing them away again in their hiding place should there be no sale, and going on his road. But there were many shapes and sizes and sorts of cimeters of great price, harder and less flexible, both plain and damascened. The black steel of Khorassan, very rare in the market reputed to cut off the neck of an anvil-an Eastern anvil, of course; the Parisian and Central Asian specimens, elegantly watered in circular veins. seem so light that a girl could use them, others so heavy that height and length of arm, with breadth of chest, were needful gifts of nature to utilize them-men like Rob Roy" or "Mahmud Ghuzni, " whose hands hung below their knees. The latter notable carried an awful steel mace in preference to sword. and smashed idols and idolators with his own arms on all occasions. -E1- glish Mechanic
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10
Thoroughly Polite.

Peabody Jamison is one of the most courteous men on the road, and he can be polite under very trying circum- stances. The other day while he was riding in Clark street car, lady, burdened with much more than her share of avoirdupois entered. Peabody was on his feet in an instant but the space he left was, comparatively speak ing. woefully small. ,.
 q am very much obliged to you, said the lady as she balanced herself on the edge of the seat.
 Don't mention it, replied Pea body, gallantly. "Pm only sorry there isn't more of it. "-Merchq1pt 4rGveIer,